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If you could change one rule at PORT CHARLOTTE HIGH SCHOOL, what would it be?
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Enrollment
1,730
High
DISTRICT 935 · STATE 1,035
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHARLOTTE·NCES 120024002122
PORT CHARLOTTE HIGH SCHOOL
18200 COCHRAN BLVD, PORT CHARLOTTE, FL 33948 · (941) 255-7485 · Charlotte County
GRADES 09–12HIGH22-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,730 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 16% of Florida public high schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public high schools
Student : Teacher
21.1:1
82 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.6:1 · STATE 23.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
43%
744 students
DISTRICT 46% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 440 | 25% |
| Grade 10 | 412 | 24% |
| Grade 11 | 472 | 27% |
| Grade 12 | 406 | 23% |
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 56% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
43.1%
FL avg 56.7% . +2.9pp since 2023
Math
22.0%
FL avg 58.9% . -9.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 22 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 9 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 43.1% | 22.0% |
| 2023-24 | 40.2% | 31.0% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of FL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
43.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.6%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-15.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 60% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like PORT CHARLOTTE HIGH SCHOOL
PORT CHARLOTTE HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (43.8% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PORT CHARLOTTE HIGH SCHOOL this school | 1,730 | 43.0% | 43.8% |
| EAU GALLIE HIGH SCHOOL MELBOURNE | 1,398 | 41.5% | 41.6% |
| FORT WALTON BEACH HIGH SCHOOL FORT WALTON BEACH | 1,550 | 46.3% | 55.3% |
| ZEPHYRHILLS HIGH SCHOOL ZEPHYRHILLS | 1,656 | 45.8% | 33.5% |
| JENSEN BEACH HIGH SCHOOL JENSEN BEACH | 1,722 | 39.4% | 59.4% |
| BELLEVIEW HIGH SCHOOL BELLEVIEW | 1,904 | 45.7% | 46.8% |
Matched among Florida high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where PORT CHARLOTTE HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Charlotte County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 43.8% | #429 of 555 | N/A |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 22.0% | #482 of 549 ▼ 155 | N/A |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 43.1% | #467 of 559 ▼ 21 | N/A |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,730 | #228 of 830 | #2 of 6 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.1:1 | #216 of 575 | N/A |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.1% | #158 of 594 | N/A |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 43.0% | #328 of 630 | N/A |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +7.4% | #163 of 246 | N/A |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,730
+356 (+26%) vs 2020
+23% since 1990-91, when it was 1,411
Student : Teacher
21.1:1
was 18.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,730 | 82 | 21.1:1 | 43% (744) |
| 2023-24 | 1,659 | 80 | 20.7:1 | 62% (1,030) |
| 2022-23 | 1,649 | 76 | 21.7:1 | 43% (714) |
| 2020-21 | 1,374 | 74 | 18.6:1 | 39% (532) |
| 2017-18 | 1,611 | 76 | 21.2:1 | 56% (907) |
| 2015-16 | 1,625 | 85 | 19.1:1 | 65% (1,058) |
| 2010-11 | 1,963 | 97 | 20.2:1 | 58% (1,144) |
| 2000-01 | 1,850 | 81 | 22.8:1 | 29% (544) |
| 1990-91 | 1,411 | 74 | 19.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PORT CHARLOTTE HIGH SCHOOL.
About PORT CHARLOTTE HIGH SCHOOL
Families in PORT CHARLOTTE, Florida, are served by PORT CHARLOTTE HIGH SCHOOL, a high-enrollment high school. It reported 1,730 students in grades 9 through 12 in 2024-25. That compares with an average of about 1,035 students for high schools in Florida.
CHARLOTTE runs 24 schools with a combined 16,997 students. PORT CHARLOTTE HIGH SCHOOL is one of them.
Federal enrollment data show PORT CHARLOTTE HIGH SCHOOL is 51% White. Other groups make up 26% Hispanic, 13% Black, 7% multiracial, and 2% Asian. Charlotte County as a whole is about 83% White, so the school's share is lower. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 65, compared with 70 nationally.
The school's 82 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 21.1:1. High schools in Florida average 23.5:1, 2.4 more students per teacher than here. Income data for the school show 43% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Charlotte County is similar, at 43%.
Among Florida public high schools, PORT CHARLOTTE HIGH SCHOOL outscored 16%, which works out to a C- on the allk12 Grade.
On allk12's BeatsExpectations measure, PORT CHARLOTTE HIGH SCHOOL is among the bottom 10% of schools in Florida. Predicted: 59.6%. Actual: 43.8%.
In the surrounding county, Charlotte County, median household income comes to about $69,952, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 27% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 6%. The county has 25 public schools and about 16,997 students.
Measured in a straight line, THE ACADEMY is about 0.2 miles from PORT CHARLOTTE HIGH SCHOOL. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Its average proficiency rate of 43.8% is below the 58.6% average for nearby schools.
PORT CHARLOTTE HIGH SCHOOL falls in the Suburb: Mid-size locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment increased from 1,374 to 1,730, a 26% rise. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 18.6:1; by 2024-25 it was 21.1:1.
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Charlotte County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
201,064
Census ACS
Median income
$69,952
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
27%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
25
16,997 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in CHARLOTTE
- CHARLOTTE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,872 students
- LEMON BAY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,343 students
- PUNTA GORDA MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,098 students
- BABCOCK NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLCombined · 1,053 students
- PORT CHARLOTTE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 858 students
- EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 814 students
Other schools in PORT CHARLOTTE
- PORT CHARLOTTE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 858 students
- LIBERTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 764 students
- NEIL ARMSTRONG ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 763 students
- MEADOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 708 students
- MURDOCK MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 656 students
- MYAKKA RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 624 students
Nearby schools
- THE ACADEMY0.2 mi · 298
- CHARLOTTE TECHNICAL COLLEGE0.2 mi · 12
- CHARLOTTE VIRTUAL FRANCHISE0.3 mi · 83
- MURDOCK MIDDLE SCHOOL0.8 mi · 656
- MEADOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.0 mi · 708
- LIBERTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.6 mi · 764
Frequently asked questions
About PORT CHARLOTTE HIGH SCHOOLHow large is PORT CHARLOTTE HIGH SCHOOL?
PORT CHARLOTTE HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,730 students in grades 09-12.
Is PORT CHARLOTTE HIGH SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
PORT CHARLOTTE HIGH SCHOOL is a high school covering grades 09-12.
How many teachers does PORT CHARLOTTE HIGH SCHOOL have?
PORT CHARLOTTE HIGH SCHOOL employs 82 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 21.1:1.
What is the student diversity at PORT CHARLOTTE HIGH SCHOOL?
Student demographics at PORT CHARLOTTE HIGH SCHOOL are roughly 51% White, 26% Hispanic, 13% Black, 2% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is PORT CHARLOTTE HIGH SCHOOL in?
PORT CHARLOTTE HIGH SCHOOL is part of CHARLOTTE.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.